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About PVC > PVC Reports > Table: Top Ten States Landfilling PVC
Top Ten States Landfilling PVC
State |
Number of Landfills |
Amount of PVC Landfilled (tons) |
California |
161 |
328,260 |
Texas |
175 |
176,896 |
New York |
26 |
116,088 |
Ohio |
44 |
100,509 |
Illinois |
51 |
98,896 |
Michigan |
52 |
96,241 |
Florida |
100 |
76,817 |
Georgia |
60 |
69,177 |
Pennsylvania |
49 |
60,844 |
New Jersey |
60 |
56,166 |
North Carolina |
41 |
54,842 |
Indiana |
35 |
52,986 |
Washington |
21 |
49,128 |
Virginia |
67 |
48,636 |
Maryland |
20 |
42,722 |
Remaining States * |
805 |
610,553 |
Total |
1,767 |
2,038,761 |
Sources and Notes: Estimates derived from Kaufman (2004) for 2002. The amount of PVC landfilled by each state was calculated by (1) assuming that the percent PVC content of municipal solid waste (0.62%) estimated by the USEPA (2003) is representative of the typical percentage of PVC in the waste stream; (2) assuming that post-consumer recycling of PVC in MSW is zero; (3) multiplying the average percent PVC in the waste (0.62%) by the total waste generated in that state according to Table 4 in Kaufman (2004); and (4) multiplying this value (the total PVC disposed in the state) by the percent of waste landfilled after recycling as shown in column 2 above. The percent of PVC landfilled after recycling was determined by dividing the total amount of waste landfilled in a state (provided in Table 4 of Kaufman 2004) by the total waste disposed of (after recycling).
* AL, AK, and MT did not report any data (see Appendix B). |
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